Faust v. Cairns

Citations

• 242 Pa. 15
• 88 A. 786
• 1913 Pa. LEXIS 827

Syllabus

<p>Appeals — Moot questions — Preliminary injunction — Dismissal of appeal.</p> <p>1. It is not the province of courts to give opinions on moot questions or abstract propositions and to enter judgments or decrees to -which effect cannot he given.</p> <p>2. An appeal from an order refusing a preliminary injunction to restrain the continuance of a quarantine established by a board of health was dismissed, where it appeared that the quarantine was removed on the day the appeal was taken, and more than three months before the argument of the appeal.</p>